Congress, apparently content to explore ever-new depths in public disapproval, is on the verge of having a single member derail the most meaningful reform in years of the federal Freedom of Information Act.

If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called "deep integreation" were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the st

LONG-STANDING rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy.

"Get the US out of the UN!," a sign near Gettysburg shouts. "The UN sabotages America's security," author Eric Shawn declared in his book the UN Exposed. Iranian spokeman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters that the UN **QQ*

After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime amazed the world. What became of him? And 17 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history?

U.S. prosecutors charged 10 people, including an ex-Laotian general, on Monday with seeking to topple the government of Laos in what they described as a dramatic cloak-and-dagger plot thwarted by an undercover agent posing as an arms dealer.

Thousands of people went to the candlelight vigil Monday night, filling up four soccer fields at Victoria Park near downtown Hong Kong. Among them was Tonny Chin, 50, a clerk, who has attended the vigil every year since 1989.

A Sunni police chief praised by US forces for clearing his city of insurgents has been arrested following an investigatioin into alleged murder, corruption and crimes against the Iraqi people, the US military said Wednesday. Col. Hamid Ibrahim al-Ja

The man suspected of poisoning ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has said it could not have happened without the involvement of British secret services. Andrei Lugovoi, who denies the allegatioins, told a Moscow new conference

When the Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.

Qubad Talabani is one of those cultural anomalies who somehow seem like natural creatures of Washington. Few twenty-nine-year-olds are trusted to serve as the top envoy of a foreign entity to the US, as Talabani - the son of Iraqi President Jalal Ta

A Moscow-based man is to be charged in connection with the murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, if he can be extradited from Russia. The Crown Prosecution Service has said it will ask for former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi

Iraq's military is drawing up plans on how to cope if US-led forces leave the country quickly, the defense minister said yesterday. The statement by Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi marked the first time a senior Iraqi official has spoken

Russia has agreed to supply Burma with its first nuclear reactor, in a move that is likely to dismay the US and raise fresh fears about the spread of nuclear technology around the world. Russia's atomic energy agency said it had reached a deal

The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the Palestinian militants battling Lebanese government troops in a refugee camp in Lebanon, saying it has nothing to do with the group. Fighting between

(Hey, Sean Hannity, take your moral obligations, and broadcast from here)
How bad is it in Somalia? Bad enough that people fleeing the capital have been reduced to renting trees for shelter. It's the sort of thing that happens when drug-addled

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the largest and most powerful Shiite party in Iraq, is in the US for urgent medical attention, according to US officials and his organization. His party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, refused to discuss

Trains crossed into the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Thursday for the first rail journey through the border dividing the two Koreas in more than half a century, the latest symbol of historic reconciliation between the longtime foes.

In a conciliatory gesture to left-wing voters, France's president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, has offered the high-profile post of Foreign Minister to the popular Socialist politician, Bernard Kouchner. Mr. Kouchner, 67, one of the founders

Japan's parliament was due Monday to approve legislation paving the way for the re-writing of the country's post-World War II pacifist constitution, a top priority for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [It's the only thing we have left to sell.]

West Australian police released photos of a pair of riders photographed on January 27 traveling at up to twice the speed limit, 80 MPH in a 37 MPH zone, on South Street in Samson at 6pm. The duo returned just 23 minutes later to salute the camera onc